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Re: Wearable Netwinder

 (Eric LaForest) writes:
> Another person I exchanged some e-mails with is planning to build it into
> a shoulder-bag and interfacing it to a wrist-mounted Psion.

Yes my plan would be to ensure that the computer and power were
comfortably housed in a bicycle messengers bag. These bags are common, 
and still quite cool, available in a range of fashionable colours
where I live. 

For use while stationary I would like to use an LCD screen and
modified laptop keyboard. For PDA type functionality whilst mobile I'd 
like to develop some voice recognition and notification apps.

That sounds very fancy, but actually would need to be little more that 
recognising a command like 'inbox', and the computer reading a list of
subject lines of incoming mail. The festival package for Linux speaks
quite well, and presumably the Netwinder has enough power to run
it. Although I don't know whether it is reliant on FP.

I read a message this morning saying that a wearable computer is best
used for running software to overlay reality. I suppose this really
means augmenting what you see with HUD type information, or perhaps in 
a more extreme way interpreting what you see.

I am after a highly portable computer to run Linux, and allow me to
travel. It doesn't have to be tiny, but it mustn't be to heavy or
bulky. The Netwinder has a fairly attractive price, power and
features. Whether the required apps can be ported to this
architecture, and whether the hardware is suitable is still to be
determined.

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